Doh, heh. Im developing a cold fusion interface that sites over the top of
the imail web interface. Only thing i can think to do. The layout is just to
limited in my view. Thanks for responding though, was thinking that someone
had figured out a way to pull it off. heh.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Pouliot [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 1:31 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Offering free email at Motorcross
>
> Bruce,
>
> We are using the standard IMail Templates with the options disabled at the
> bottom of the main mailbox screen. We are also using the standard IMail
> port(8383).
>
> Unfortunately I don't know of a way to get IMail to work on Port 80 along
> side a web server running port 80. It would be great it we could run the
> Web Interface on IIS, but not yet :-(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 3:21 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Offering free email at Motorcross
>
>
> Here is a question, With the motocross mail
> system, are you reading in the pages so that you dont have to re-direct a
> user to a oddball port? This is a major problem for people who are behind
> firewalls and proxys. Also i have noticed that you have disabled a ton of
> the options for the system. Is this due to you reading the pages and
> making
> them post the info to another?
>
> Im curious if there is a way to get the
> imail system to work on the same box as a web server? Cause it seems to
> eat
> the port on all ips that a box contains, Which means that you cannot run
> the
> email on port 80 if your main page is there.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Pouliot
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> <mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 2:26 PM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Offering free
> email at Motorcross
>
> The new user signup is pretty trivial if you
> have worked with ASP before(if not I suggest you visit
> www.activeserverpages.com <http://www.activeserverpages.com>).
>
> We use an external MS Access database to
> store all of our user info. When a user hits our sign up page....we
> naturally ask them a few questions to get the data we need to make the
> user
> account. Once we have this info......we have the form submit to an ASP
> script which adds a record to the IMail database with the pertinent info.
>
> We have a username and password box on our
> home page to make the login process one step shorter. We also use a VERY
> simple ASP script to process this as well. Below is a flowchart(of sorts)
> as to how we use a form besides the IMail form.
>
> 1. User fills out the username and password
> box we provide
> 2. We check our database to make sure he/she
> exists and verify their Password
> 3. Show any error messages if they occur
> 4. If it's a valid user we redirect to an
> ASP version of the IMail login form that uses hidden form inputs and the
> data values they provided in step 1, and we use a Javascript to submit the
> form(using an OnLoad event)
> 5. User arrives at their inbox.
>
> Sounds pretty simple right? ;-)
>
> As far as making IMail work in a
> frame....just make a frameset and load in the IMail login form(
> www.yourserver.com:8383 <http://www.yourserver.com:8383>). Once it's in a
> frame.....it'll stay in there unless you specify a different target. We
> also add in a few javascripts on a few pages to ensure that they can not
> be
> loaded outside of the frameset.
>
> Any more questions....just drop me a note
> ;-)
>
> Scott
>
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